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Today's featured article requests

30 Oct 2025 – 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by MisawaSakura (t · c); see discussion

Did you know

27 Jul 2025 – Abortion in Mali (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion
26 Jul 2025 – Grape surgery (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (t · c); see discussion
25 Jul 2025 – Uterine hypoplasia (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Toadspike (t · c); see discussion
23 Jul 2025 – Abortion in Somalia (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion
22 Jul 2025 – Abortion in Eritrea (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion
18 Jul 2025 – Abortion in Rwanda (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion
15 Jul 2025 – Abortion in Burundi (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion
10 Jul 2025 – Swertia japonica (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miminity (t · c); see discussion
08 Jul 2025 – Meier-Gorlin syndrome (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by NotCarlJohnson1992 (t · c); see discussion
06 Jul 2025 – Episode 4043 (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (t · c); see discussion

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Articles for deletion

30 Jul 2025 – Srinivas Gada (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
30 Jul 2025 – NSPC Brain and Spine Surgery (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
29 Jul 2025 – SPOTLIGHT project (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chiserc (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
28 Jul 2025 – European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
28 Jul 2025 – Paul Woolley (physician) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Guerreroast (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
24 Jul 2025 – Apothisexuality (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Astaire (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
24 Jul 2025 – Mala Raj (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ohnoitsjamie (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
24 Jul 2025 – Canopy Biosciences (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amigao (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
23 Jul 2025 – Suseela Prabhakaran (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (0 participants; relisted)
22 Jul 2025 – Alkem Laboratories (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LKBT (t · c); see discussion (0 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

17 Jul 2025 – African Caribbean Medical Society (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by LibStar (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

29 Jul 2025 – Category:Chinese dermatologists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Category:Venezuelan pathologists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Category:Palestinian pathologists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Category:Egyptian pathologists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Category:Cuban pathologists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Category:Bulgarian pathologists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Category:Croatian pathologists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Category:Bangladeshi pathologists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
29 Jul 2025 – Category:Jamaican orthopaedic surgeons (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
28 Jul 2025 – Category:Tibetan surgeons (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion

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Redirects for discussion

23 Jul 2025 – Bacium (talk · edit · hist) →Bacteria was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Death due to COVID-19 (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Deaths from the 2019-21 coronavirus outbreak (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Deaths from the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Deaths from the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Deaths from the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Deaths from the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Deaths from the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Deaths from the 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2025 – Deaths from the 2019–21 coronavirus outbreak (talk · edit · hist) →List of deaths due to COVID-19 was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion

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Good article nominees

22 Jul 2025 – History of penicillin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hawkeye7 (t · c); start discussion
19 Jul 2025 – Abortion in Eswatini (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); start discussion
16 Jul 2025 – Abortion in Togo (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion
27 Jun 2025 – Hilda Bull (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MCE89 (t · c); start discussion
08 May 2025 – Casey Means (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ElijahPepe (t · c); see discussion
19 Mar 2025 – EviCore (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); start discussion
12 Mar 2025 – Insulin analogue (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MallardTV (t · c); see discussion
11 Jan 2025 – Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by FuzzyMagma (t · c); see discussion
23 Dec 2024 – Drug-eluting stent (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); start discussion
23 Dec 2024 – Ketotifen (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); start discussion

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Check for retracted papers. See Category:Articles citing retracted publications for articles that may wrongly cite retracted publications.
Remove inappropriate external links. Some medicine-related articles attract inappropriate links, such as internet chat boards and advertisements. You can review the external links in any article, or you can use Special:Linksearch to find articles containing a specific link, such as *.clinicaltrials.gov or *.groups.yahoo.com. Details available in the full guidelines for all of Wikipedia and also the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles.
Help evaluate articles nominated for deletion. Help identify deletion discussions that relate to medicine.
Sort stubs. See the list of specific stub templates. Replacing {{stub}} or {{med-stub}} with a more specific template is helpful.
Assess quality and importance of articles. Use the Rater-tool and assess the article according to our assessment scale. A bot-generated list of new articles that might be medicine-related is here.
'Help with completion of translation into French and Chinese'. Help is needed to review and help the article that is practically ready https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89couter_sans_risque. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GWei13/%E5%AE%89%E5%85%A8%E8%81%86%E5%90%AC
Improve categorization of articles. Several popular Wikipedia categories like Medicine and Category:Diseases and disorders need people to sort articles into more specific subcategories. Tools like HotCat may make this easier.

Requests

Requested articles

Templates

Category:Medicine templates contains all templates used on medicine-related articles.

{{WPMED|class=|importance=}} - Placed on talk pages of medicine-related articles and used to assess articles.
{{reqphoto|medical subjects}} - Used on talk pages to request that photographs be added to the article.
{{med-stub}} - Used on stub articles (here is the complete list)
{{Medref}} - Used to indicate an article in need of adequate references.
- {{Medref|section|{{subst:DATE}}}} - Used to indicate an section in need of adequate references.
{{Medicine}} - The bottom navbox template to be used on articles about broad disciplines of medicine.
{{medical advice}} - placed around requests for medical advice on talk pages (box ends with {{cob}}).
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Navigation}} - transcludes the navigation template shown to the right.
{{Reliable sources for medical articles}} - updated template providing links to recent reviews, for use on Talk pages

Inline with article text

{{medical citation needed}} or {{medcn}} - Used after text without a reliable medical source. Generates: Some text.^{[medical citation needed]}
{{medical citation needed span}} or {{mcns}} - Used after text without a reliable medical source. Generates: Some text.^{[medical citation needed]}
{{unreliable medical source}} or {{ums}} - Used after text with a questionable medical source. Generates: Some text.^{[unreliable medical source?]}
{{primary source-inline}} or {{npsn}} - Used after text that cites a primary source. Generates: Some text.^{[non-primary source needed]}

Infoboxes

WP:Infoboxes have been created for a number of article types including:

Template:Infobox medical condition for articles on diseases
Template:Infobox medical intervention for articles pertaining to procedures
Template:Infobox diagnostic for diagnostic test
Template:Infobox drug for medications
Template:Infobox drug class for classes of medication

For other editors

the welcome video

Welcome messages (all of these should be substituted onto a user's talk page):
- {{subst:WPMED welcome}} ~~~~ – Welcome message for new Wikipedians (with invitation to join us) – newish, with video
- {{subst:Welcome medical student}} ~~~~ – For welcoming new editors who appear to be students associated with a course
- {{subst:Student}}~~~~ – For welcoming new editors who appear to be students associated with a course, with more detailed advice
[[File:New medical editor.ogv|thumb|right|thumbtime=2:59|320px|Welcome to Wikipedia]] A video that can be transcluded onto the pages of new users.
{{subst:RSPlease}} ~~~~ – User Talk page request to use MEDRS sources

For WP:MED contributors

{{User WPMed}} – Userbox for members of this WikiProject.
{{WikiProject Medicine topicon}} – For members of this WikiProject. Adds a topicon to your user page.
{{User MedLat}} – Userbox for those who understand Medical Latin (Babel-compatible; just add |MedLat to your Babel template)